The Repair Shop is a truly extraordinary television programme; a series so absolutely guaranteed to make me cry, to send a depth charge to every single one of my emotional trigger points, that I find myself having to ration out episodes to fend off medical dehydration. I am not the only one either. The show’s delicate mix of the sentimental and the heartrending has seen it gain extraordinary success since it first aired in 2017.
But success can change you. And so it is with The Repair Shop’s newest episode. To mark the BBC centenary, the episode’s special guest is King Charles, who calls upon the team to fix up a pair of knackered old items from Dumfries House in Scotland, a location where, handily, disadvantaged local youths are taught the value of traditional skills.
